a, ā, i, ī, u, ū, e, o,
k, kh, g, gh, ṅ,
c, ch, j, jh, ñ,
ṭ, ṭh, ḍ, ḍh, ṇ,
t, th, d, dh, n,
p, ph, b, bh, m,
y, r, l, ḷ, v, s, h, ṃ
A
akālika—timeless, intemporal.
akusala—unskilful.
acinteyya—not to be speculated about, unthinkable.
ajjhatta—inside, internal, subjective. (Opp. bahiddhā.)
ajjhattakkāyā—internal body.
ajjhattikāyatana—internal base.
añña—other, another. (Opp. sa.)
aññā—the arahat's knowledge.
aṭṭhaṅgika—eight-factored.
aṭṭhapurisapuggalā—(the) eight individual men.
atakkāvacara—not in the sphere of reason or logic.
atidhāvati—(to) overrun, overshoot.
attavāda—belief in self.
attā—self.
attāni rūpaṃ—(regards) matter as being in self.
atthi—there is.
adukkhamasukha—neither-pain-nor-pleasure.
adhigama-saddhā—confidence due to undergoing.
adhivacana—designation.
adhivacanasamphassa—designation-contact.
an- —without. (prefix)
anattasaññā—perception of not-self.
anattā—not-self.
ananto ākāsa—infinite space.
anāgāmitā—non-returning.
anāgāmī—non-returner.
anicca—impermanent.
aniccatā—impermanence.
aniccasaññā—perception of impermanence.
anidassana—non-indication, non-indicative.
anupādisesa—without residue.
anuruddha-paṭiviruddha—approving-&-disapproving, accepting-&-rejecting, attracting-&-repelling.
anuloma—with the grain, in conformity. (Opp. paṭiloma.)
anulomikāya khantiyā samannāgato—one endowed with acquiescence in conformity.
anvaya—inference, inferability.
aparapaccayā—not dependent on others.
apuñña—demerit.
abbhānakamma—an act of rehabilitation, pertaining to Vinaya.
abhāvita—undeveloped.
abhijjhā—covetousness.
abhijānāti—to recognize
abhidhamma—higher (or extended) Teaching.
abhibhāyatana—sense for transcending (form).
abhivinaya—higher (or extended) discipline.
abhisaṅkharoti—(to)determine.
abhisaṅkhāra = saṅkhāra.
abhisañcetayati—(to) intend, will.
arañña—forest.
araṇa—non-conflict.
arahat—one who is worthy. (Usually untranslated.)
arahattā—state of the arahat.
ariya—noble. (Opp. puthujjana.)
ariyakanta—pleasing to the nobles.
ariyacakkhu—noble eye.
ariyapuggala—noble individual.
ariyasāvaka—noble disciple.
arūpa = āruppa.
alaṃ—enough.
aluham (Sn)—a disease with patches on the skin.
avijjā—nescience. (Opp. vijjā.)
avijjāsamphassa—born of contact with nescience.
asaṅkhata—non-determined.
asaññasatta—non-perceptive being.
asubha—foul.
asubhasaññā—perception of the foul.
asekha—non-trainee (i.e. one who has finished his training, = arahat).
asmimāna—conceit '(I) am. ('Conceit', māna, is to be understood as a cross between 'concept' and 'pride'—almost the French 'orgueil' suitably attenuated. Asmi is 'I am' without the pronoun, like the Latin 'sum'; but plain 'am' is too weak to render asmi, and ahaṃ asmi ('ergo sum') is too emphatic to be adequately rendered 'I am'.)
asmī' ti chanda—desire '(I) am'. (See asmimāna.)
assāsapassāsā—in-&-out-breaths.
assutavā—uninstructed.
Ā
ākāsa—space.
ākāsānañcāyatana—the base of infinite space.
ākiñcaññāyatana—nothingness-base.
āgantuka kuṭi—new-comer's hut.
ācariya—teacher.
ātman (Sk)—self.
ānāpānasati—mindfulness of breathing.
āneñja—immobility, unshakability, imperturbability.
āpatti—offence.
āpatti desanā—confession of faults.
āpo—endurance.
āyatana—base.
āyu—life.
āyusaṅkhāra—life-determination.
ārammaṇa—act of shunning; basis, object.
āruppa—formless, immaterial.
āsava—canker, intoxication.
I
ida(p)paccayatā—dependence on this.
iddhi—accomplishment; power (usu. Supernormal).
idha—here.
indriya—faculty.
indriyasaṃvara—restraint of the faculties.
indriyāni vippasannāni—exceptionally clear faculties.
iriyāpathas—modes of deportment, i.e. sitting, lying, standing, walking.
issaranimmāna—creator God.
U
ucchedadiṭṭhi—annihilationist-view. (Opp. sassatadiṭṭhi.)
uccheda—perishing.
ucchedavāda—belief in annihilation.
ucchedavādin—one with belief in annihilation.
uddhacca-kukkucca—distraction and worry.
upaga—reaching to.
upajjhāya—preceptor.
upavicarati—(to) dwell upon, ponder.
upasampadā—ordination (into the status of bhikkhu).
upādāna—holding.
upādiyi—held.
upādisesa—residue.
upāsaka—male lay-follower.
upāsikā—female lay-follower.
upekkhā—indifference.
uppatti—appearance, arising, rebirth.
uppāda—arising.
E
ekaggatā—one-pointedness.
ekaṃsa—to arrange the upper robe over one shoulder (the left). Passim
ekaṃsa vyākaraṇīya—to be answered/explained directly
etaṃ—this, that.
O
opanayika—leading.
K
kaṭhina—annual occasion when the laity supply the cotton cloth to the bhikkhus for the purpose of making robes.
kaṇha—dark.
kamma—action.
kammapatha—world of actions.
karuṇā—compassion.
kasiṇa—whole, totality; a contemplation device.
kāma—sensuality.
kāya—body.
kāyasakkhi—body-witness.
kāyika—bodily.
kālika—temporal, involving time.
kuṭi—cottage.
kuṭṭhi—leper.
kusala—skilful, good.
KH
khandha—aggregate, mass, totality.
khīṇāsava—destruction of the cankers.
G
gāthā—verses.
gilampasa (Sn)—beverages derived from gilāna paccaya(Pāli)
gocaravisayo—range-and-sphere.
gotrabhu—become of the clan or lineage. (Sometimes translated as 'one who destroys the lineage'; the etymologists seem to be in doubt.)
GH
C
cakkhu—eye.
cakkhundriya—eye-faculty.
cakkhuppāda—arising of the eye (of knowledge).
cakkhumanto—ones who have eyes.
cakkhusamphassajā vedanā—arises when the eye comes in contact with an object
caṅkamana—path for walking meditation.
citta—mind, consciousness, cognition, spirit, heart, purpose, (conscious) experience, &c. (Citta is sometimes synonymous with mano, and sometimes not; it is occasionally equivalent to viññāṇa in certain senses. Related to cetanā, but more general. Its precise meaning must be determined afresh in each new context.)
cittavīthi—mental process, cognitive series.
citt'ekaggatā—one-pointedness of mind.
cetanā—intention, volition, will.
cetasika—mental. (See citta.)
chandarāga—desire-and-lust.
chinna—cut.
J
jānāti, ñāṇa—to cognize, cognition.
jarā—ageing, decay.
jāti—birth.
jhāna—meditation.
Ñ
ñāṇa—knowledge.
Ṭ
ṭhapaniya—to be set aside.
ṬH
ṭhapanīya—that (which) should be put aside.
ṭhitassa aññathatta/ṃ—invariance under transformation.
thiti—station.
T
takka—reasoning, logic.
taṇhā—craving.
Tathāgata—(usually untranslated epithet of) the Buddha, (and, by transference, of) an arahat.
Tāvatiṃsa—Heaven of the Thirty-Three.
tipiṭaka—three baskets, i.e. Vināya, Sutta and Abhidhamma.
Ṭīkā—sub-commentary.
tejo—plasticity (mobility).
TH
theta—reliable, actual.
thera—(male) elder.
therī—(female) elder.
thūpa—monument erected over the ashes of an Ariyā.
D
dassana—seeing.
dāna—gift, esp. of a meal.
dānasālā—a hall for the distribution of alms to the bhikkhus.
dāyaka—(male) giver.
diṭṭhi—view. (Usually, wrong view.)
diṭṭhigata—going to, involved with, consisting of, (wrong) view.
diṭṭhipatta—attained through view.
diṭṭhisampanna—(one) attained to (right) view. (= sotāpanna.)
dibbacakkhu—divine eye.
dukkaṭa—wrong-doing (a category of minor offences in the bhikkhu's disciplinary rules).
dukkha—unpleasure (opp. sukha), pain, suffering.
dukkhasaññā—perception of suffering.
dutiya, tatiya tappurisa—accusative, instrumentive dependent determinative compound. (Grammatical terms.)
dussīla—immoral, unvirtuous.
deva (pl. devā)—deity .
devatā—deity.
devaloka—heavenly world.
domanassa—grief.
dosa—hate.
dosakkhaya—destruction of hate.
dvayaṃ—dyad, duality.
dhamma—thing, image, idea, essence, universal, teaching, Teaching, nature, natural law, ethic, ethical law, &c. (cf. the Heraclitan 'logos').
dhamm'anvaya—inferability of the dhamma (to past and future).
dhammacakkhu—eye of the Dhamma.
dhammatā—nature (dhamma-ness).
dhammānupassanā—contemplation of (correct) ideas (of things).
dhammānusārī—teaching-follower. (Opp. saddhānusārī.)
dhātu—element.
N
na—not.
nandi—relish, delight.
nānakada—(Sin) bathing cloth.
nāma—name.
nāmarūpa—name-&-matter.
nicca—permanent.
nidassana—indication, indicative.
nibbāna—extinction.
nibbuta—extinguished.
nimitta—sign, object.
niyyānika—leading out, leading to salvation.
niruddha—ceased.
nirodha—ceasing, cessation.
nirvāna (Sk)—extinction.
nissaya—support.
nīvaraṇa—hindrance.
neti (Sk)—not this.
nevasaññānāsaññāyatana—the base of neither-perception-nor-non-perception.
P
paccaya—condition.
paccavekkhana—reflexion.
pajānāti, paññā—to understand, understanding.
pañcakkhandhā—five aggregates.
pañc'upādānakkhandhā—five holding aggregates. (This needs expansion to be intelligible.)
paññā—understanding.
paṭigha—resistance.
paṭighasamphassa—resistance-contact.
paṭicca-sam—dependent-together.
paṭiccasamuppanna—dependently arisen.
paṭiccasamuppāda—dependent arising.
paṭipucchāvyākaraṇīya—answerable by putting another question ???
paṭibaddha—bound up with.
paṭiloma—against the grain. (Opp. anuloma.)
paṭisaraṇa—shelter, protection.
paṭissati—mindfulness.
paṭisotagāmī—going against the stream.
paṭhaviṃ maññati—he conceives earth.
paṭhaviṃ me ti maññati—he conceives 'earth is mine'.
paṭhavito maññati—he conceives externality of earth.
paṭhaviyā maññati—he conceives internality of earth.
paṭhavī—rigidity.
paṇḍita—learned.
padmāsana—lotus position (sitting cross-legged).
papañca—dispersion.
pabbajita—gone forth.
parato—other.
paramattha sacca—truth in the highest, or ultimate, or absolute, sense.
parijānāti—to see completely.
pariññā—absolute knowledge.
pariññeyya—to be known absolutely.
paritassanā—anxiety, anguish, angst.
parinibbāna—full extinction.
paripūrakārī—fulfils.
paribbājaka—wanderer.
pariyatti—texts; book-learning.
pariyesanā—seeking.
pavāraṇā—the ceremony that concludes the vassa.
pahātabba—to be abandoned.
pahoti—(to) originate.
pātubhavati—to appear.
pāṇa—animal, living being.
pāpadhamma—evil-natured.
pāpimā—evil one.
pārājika—defeat.
piṇḍapāta—alms-round.
puggala—individual.
puñña—merit.
puthujjana—commoner. (Opp. ariya.)
punabbhavābhinibbatti—coming into renewed being, re-birth.
puggala—person.
purisa—man, male.
poḷoňgā (Sn)—viper.
PH
phala—fruit, fruition.
pharati—to think about.
phassa—contact.
phoṭṭhabbā—tangibles.
B
bala—power, strength.
baliṃ—offerings.
bahiddhā—outside, external, objective. (Opp. ajjhatta.)
bahiddhāyatana—external base.
bāhira—outside.
bāhiraka—one outside the Buddha's Dispensation.
bujjhissanti—will awaken.
Buddharūpa—an image of the Buddha (the earliest are some centuries after the Buddha).
bojjhaṅga—enlightenment factor.
bodhi—awakening, enlightenment.
bodhipakkhiya—on the side of awakening.
bodhisatta—creature pledged to enlightenment.
brahmacariya—the life of purity (i.e. celibacy).
brahmacārī—one living a pure life.
BH
Bhagavā—Auspicious One.
bhaginī—sister.
bhante—sir (monastic address, junior to senior; seniors address juniors, and equals to equals, as āvuso).
bhava—being, existence.
bhavaṅga—life-continuum.
bhavataṇhā—craving for existence.
bhavataṇhāparikkhayā—having utterly destroyed craving for being.
bhāvanā—development.
bhavārāmatā, vibhavārāmatā—delight in being/non-being.
bhāvita—developed.
bhāvetabba—to be developed.
bhikkhu—monk, almsman.
bhikkhunī—nun, almswoman.
bhūta—being.
M
magga—path.
maggaṅga—factor of the path.
maññati—(to) conceive. (See asmimāna.)
maññāṇā—conceiving. (See asmimāna.)
maññita—imagine.
manasikāra—attention.
manussa—human (being).
mano—mind. (See citta.)
manoviññāṇa—mind-consciousness.
māpilā (Sn)—krait
mama—mine, of me.
maraṇa—death.
maraṇasati—mindfulness of death.
maṃsacakkhu—fleshly eye.
mahāthera—great elder.
mahābhūta—great entity.
mā—don't; shouldn't.
māna—conceit.
māyā—illusion.
micchāttāni—wrongness.
micchādiṭṭhi—wrong view. (Opp. sammādiṭṭhi.)
mudhalali (Sn)—merchant.
mūla—root.
mūlapariyāya—root of all things.
me—mine. (Weaker than mama.)
mettā—friendliness.
moha—delusion.
mohakkhaya—destruction of delusion.
Y
yoga—yoke; discipline.
yogin—one in (meditative) discipline.
yoni—vagina.
yoniso—proper.
yoniso manasikāra—proper attention.
R
randhagavesī—looking for faults.
rāga—lust.
rāgakkhaya—destruction of lust.
rilavā (Sn)—macaque.
rukkhamūlasenāsana—tree-root dwelling-place.
ruppati—(to) 'matter', be broken. (Untranslatable verb from rūpa.)
rūpa—matter, substance, (visible) form.
rūpaṃ attato—(regards) matter/substance/form as self
rūpavantaṃ attānaṃ—(regards) self as possessing matter/substance/form
rūpasmiṃ attānaṃ—(regards) self as being in matter/substance/form
L
lakkhaṇa—mark, characteristic.
lābha—gain.
loka—world.
lokiya—worldly.
lokuttara—beyond the world, world-transcending.
lobha—lust.
V
vacī—speech.
vandanā—worship.
wandurā (Sn)—langur, monkey.
vaya—disappearance.
vassāna, vassa—rain, rainy season.
vāyo—change (movement).
vicāra—pondering.
vijānāti—(to) cognize, be conscious (of).
vijjā—science, knowledge. (Opp. avijjā.)
vijjāvimutti—deliverance by science.
vijjāsamphassa—born of contact with science.
viññāna—consciousness, knowing.
viññānañcāyatana—base of endless consciousness.
vicāra—pondering, exploring.
vicikicchā—doubt, uncertainty.
vitakka—thinking, thought.
vinaya—discipline, 'leading out'.
vinayakamma—disciplinary act.
vineti—(to) direct.
vipassanā—insight.
vipāka—ripening, result, consequence.
vibhajjavyākaraṇīya—answerable analytically. ???
vibhava—non-being.
vibhavaṃ abhinandanti—rejoice at non-being.
vibhavataṇhā—craving for non-existence.
vimokha—liberation.
viriya—energy, exertion.
vedanā—feeling.
vedallakathā—cross-questioning.
vediyati—(to) feel.
vohāra—term, way of speech, common usage.
S
sa—that, the same.
sa-—with. (Prefix.)
saupādisesa—with residue.
sa-upādisesa-nibbānadhātu—extinction element with remainder.
sakadāgāmitā—once-returning.
sakadāgāmī—once-returner.
sakkāya—person, somebody, personality.
sakkāyadiṭṭhi—personality-view.
saṅkappavitakka—purposeful thinking.
saṅkhata—determined.
saṅkhatalakkhaṇa—characteristics of the determined.
saṅkhāra—determination, determinant.
saṇkhārasantatim—continuous determination.
saṅgha—community, order.
sacca—truth.(pl)saccāni.
saṅghādisesa—an offence requiring a meeting of the Order
sacca—truth.
sacchikātabba—to be realized.
sañcetanā = cetanā.
sañjānāti—(to) perceive.
saññā—perception, percept.
Saññāmayā = arūpin—formless ???
saññāvedayitanirodha—cessation of perception and feeling.
saññita—name, so-called.
sāti—mindfulness, recollection, memory.
satindriya—faculty of mindfulness.
satipaṭṭhānā—foundations of mindfulness.
satibala—the power of mindfulness.
satisampajañña—mindfulness-&-awareness.
satisambojjhaṅga—the awakening factor of mindfulness.
satta—creature, sentient being.
satta-bojjhaṅgā—seven awakening factors.
sattama puggala—seventh individual.
sattamī—seventh.
saddhamma—Good Teaching.
saddhā—faith, confidence, trust.
saddhānusārī—faith-follower. (Opp. dhammānusārī.)
saddhāvimutta—released through faith.
saddhindriya—faculty of faith.
sandiṭṭhika—evident, immediately visible.
sandosa—rot, decay.
sappāya—beneficial.
sappurisa—Good Man.
samaṇabrāhmaṇa—recluses and divines.
samatha—calmness; mental concentration.
samādhi—concentration.
samāpatti—attainment.
samudaya—appearing, arising, coming into being.
sampajañña—awareness.
samphassa = phassa.
sambuddha—awakened.
sammatta—rightness.
sammā—full; right.
sammādiṭṭhi—right view. (Opp. micchāditthi.)
sammāsati—right mindfulness.
sammāsamādhi—right concentration.
sammoha—bewilderment, confusion.
sassatadiṭṭhi—eternalist-view. (Opp. ucchedadiṭṭhi.)
saḷāyatana—six bases.
sassata—eternal.
sassatavāda—eternalist belief.
saha—with.
saṃvara—restraint.
saṃsāra—running on (from existence to existence).
Sāsana—advice; used today in the sense of 'the Buddha's Dispensation'.
sītabhūta—become cold.
sīl (Sn) = sīla.
sīla—virtue, (right) conduct.
sīlabbata—rites and rituals; conduct and customs.
sīlabbataparāmāsa—attachment to conduct and custom.
sukha—pleasure. (Opp. dukkha.)
sutavā—instructed.
sukha—pleasure.
subhanimitta—lovely object.
sekha—one in training, (self-)trainer.
senāsana—resting place.
so (see sa).
sotāpatti—attaining of the stream.
sotāpanna—stream-attainer.
somanassa—joy.
śivaliṅngam (Sk)—the phallus of Shiva (a stone found in many Hindu temples).
H
hitānukampā—beneficial compassion.
huraṃ—yonder.
hetu—condition. (= paccaya)
